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Linux and Open Source News for 3rd October 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Puppy Size: 97.63 MB Status: 21 seeders and 57 leechers Added: 2007-10-03 21:30:46


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 471.38 MB Status: 16 seeders and 36 leechers Added: 2007-10-03 18:21:47


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 447.12 MB Status: 31 seeders and 123 leechers Added: 2007-10-03 18:21:08


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 241.00 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-10-03 13:53:00


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Fedora Size: 2.74 GB Status: 2 seeders and 19 leechers Added: 2007-10-03 02:27:43


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mandriva Size: 699.37 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-10-03 00:11:50


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Source: yoper

Tobias Gerschner has announced the release of Yoper Linux 3.0.1: "The Yoper team is proud to announce the first (and only) maintenance release of Yoper Linux 3.0, code name 'Titanium'. This release ships with Kernel 2.6.21.1, including the Ken Colivas patch set with the SD scheduler, X.Org 7.3, .


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Source: systemrescue

A new major version of SystemRescueCd, a Gentoo-based distribution with focus on disk partitioning and data rescue tasks, has been released. What's new? "Added PXE network booting support; added a 64-bit kernel (rescue64) to chroot on a 64-bit Linux; added a 32-bit alternative kernel (vmlinuz2) based on 2.6.20.19; .



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Source: Linux Today

Rudd-O: "Desktop performance on Linux computers has been a hot-button issue of late, and a source of longstanding fights among the Linux developers "


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Source: Linux Today

Debian Admin: "Using NTP is a great way to keep your system clock set correctly "


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Source: Linux Today

The Cyber-Janitor Chronicles: "The term buffer overflow has been around since programmers started developing software and has almost become a household word "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux In Novell's East Region: You're in the server room, listening to the sound of a babbling brook, when suddenly the sound of a fish splashing back in the water causes you to look at your network monitor application "


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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "I mentioned yesterday that the big money for established open source vendors went on M&A; activity rather than venture funding in the third quarter "


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Source: Linux Today

Blue-GNU: "I ran across a business website that refers to Amanda and Bacula as freeware "


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Source: Linux Today

InteropNews: "There was some excitement earlier this month at the Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco over server vendor Hitachi's claim to have made third party virtualization software unnecessary "


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Linux Log: "Matthew Porter, the CEO of Contegix, is an anomaly as far as I'm concerned--and I don't mean that in a negative way whatsoever "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: " [W]e may well end up becoming that which we disrupt "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "An announcement of the revival of linux-tiny, a set of patches aimed at reducing the footprint of the kernel, mainly for the embedded world, has led to a number of linux-kernel threads "


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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "It used to be that many folks in open source, both developers and users, lamented that despite the innovative nature of their software, there wasn't much progress coming from their main repositories and directories such as SourceForge.net and Freshmeat.net "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "Torvalds' irate reaction--complete with shouting and name-calling--got the attention of many outside the inner sanctum, but many would argue that this was just another day in the life of the Linux kernel community "


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Source: Linux Today

whurley.com: "One minute ago Microsoft made one of its first 'open source' moves under the new Microsoft Reference License: the team in Redmond announced they'll make some .NET libraries available " [Link to eWeek analysis added. -ed]


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Source: Linux Today

Channel Register: "Linux specialist Levanta has issued a fresh release of its flagship software that brings a host of new high-end management tools "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "iFAX, a commercial company that is built on open source fax server software HylaFAX, was recently included in Inc. Magazine's 2007 list of the top 500 fastest growing companies in the United States "


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Source: Linux Today

PC Magazine: "It's time to save the Palm OS. Set it free by introducing it to the world of open-source development "


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Source: Linux Today

Mandriva: "Mandriva today announced that the Federal Service on Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) in Russia has agreed to authorise the certification of the Mandriva Linux OS for all safe and legal use "


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "More interesting is that most of the compromised machines were not Windows machines. 'The vast majority of [the phishing sites] we saw were on rootkit-ed Linux boxes '"


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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "Now it's Hewlett-Packard that has answered the call from the bankruptcy court and filed a notice of its interest in SCO's bankruptcy "


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Source: Linux Today

The News & Observer: "Software maker Red Hat could be within a decade of catching up with Microsoft in the business of selling server software "


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Source: Linux Today

Chicago Tribune: "Neerav Modi has never been an activist. But the American student and computer whiz, who is studying medicine in India, has played a crucial role in the political uprisings in Myanmar "


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Source: Linux Today

Swaroop C H: "You can now create Flex projects, write code with intellisense-like hinting, compile and debug all within an IDE based on Eclipse, on Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "Turbolinux, one of the first-generation Linux vendors to enter the business arena, on Monday announced a new online storage service for its Wizpy device, which was first introduced in June "


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Source: Linux Today

eMediaWire: "MySQL AB [has] announced that the Swedish National Police is implementing an enterprise-wide project for building all future IT systems on an open source software infrastructure based upon Linux, MySQL and JBoss "


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Source: Linux Today

The Economic Times: "India's free and open source software (FOSS) thrust is growing bigger. Its annual event, freed.in, has just concluded. And it drew some prominent speakers and serious support from industry "


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Source: Linux Today

Seopher: "At the end of August I created a list of the 40 coolest free applications around which proved quite popular "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source from Bohol: "The word 'nimble' is an adjective that means quick and light in motion. It is also a quality that the young NimbleX Linux distribution is boasting "


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Source: Linux Today

Roberto Galoppini's Commercial Open Source Software: "I returned myself a couple of days ago, and I wish to share here some thoughts about the final round table, actually one of the most important sessions "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "If you spend most of your computing life in Firefox, it makes sense to consolidate other online activities in your browser "


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Source: Linux Today

Wine Review: "iTunes is an audio player for playing and organizing digital music files, and purchasing digital music files in the FairPlay digital rights management format "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

mikepotter writes "Adobe announced Flex Builder Linux Alpha at the Adobe MAX conference today. This is a native Linux port of the Flex Builder IDE (based on Eclipse) for building rich Internet applications. 'Flex Builder Linux is a plugin-only version of the Flex Builder that you can use to build Flex applications on Linux. We wanted to get an early release out with the base Flex Builder features so you could begin to provide us with your feedback and let us know your priorities for additional features.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Microsoft wants to destroy open-source by opening its code for examination, but not for use.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

As a Linux and Open Source user and advocate, it's often easy to take defensive potshots at those who are critical of our favorite OS. It's a position that I have become intimately familiar with over the last decade or so, because before I was a Linux and Open Source advocate, I was an IBM OS/2 advocate.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Explicit parallel programming presents special challenges for software developers. Now a new group of languages are coming online to address the compounded problem of multi-core processors on high-performance clusters.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Managing users on a network is a whole lot simpler with LDAP. Part Three: Configuring LDAP clients.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Learn how to use diff3 to compare and merge files.



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Source: ONLamp.com

Michael Meeks hacks on OpenOffice.org (and other code) for Novell. While very few people question Sun’s generosity in purchasing Star Office and subsequently opening the code, there have been persistent questions regarding the community management of the project. Michael’s work log for 02 October 2007 highlights what appears to be lopsided behavior from Sun. In particular:

If OpenOffice was blessed (like other more sensibly structured projects) with a large, diverse and healthy developer-base, then perhaps we could expect to go around rejecting big chunks of code, offending developers and driving away potential contributors. To do this solely in order for Sun to retain total ownership of the code-base (and even loosely coupled components) - seems rather a betrayal of it’s self-appointed stewardship role wrt. OO.o code ownership (under the JCA).

Ultimately, it seems to me the current setup is not a winning, open approach, but a dangerous situation that hobbles OpenOffice.org, and leaves us in a bind.

This fits with a lot of semi-public criticisms I’ve heard of the project management over the past few years: onerous change request processes, an insular development process, and tight control from some managers at Sun. It’s not all Sun’s fault, though–someone reminded me that the StarOffice team is a tight-knit group of developers who’ve all been working in the same building on the same code for a decade, so a distributed, community-driven development process is a big change.

OO.o development has not exactly progressed with rapidity. While loosening the grip of the main contributor over the project is no guarantee that the project will attract more developers, the opinion I’ve heard from contributors from almost everywhere but Sun is that it’s an experiment well-worth trying, lest OO.o manage itself into irrelevance.



Updated: Thu Oct 4 23:55:04 2007


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